skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theoretically there's no reason why this shouldn't work, but you likely will find the software isn't designed for multi-GPU and have to reimplement/fix things yourself.

You will also be getting about 720GB/s of memory bandwidth with 2x3060; instead of 1TB/s with the 4090; so expect lower performance.
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In common parlance, in both the US and abroad, it's commonly used as an agnomen for the USA, and that's okay. When people need to be more specific, they can say North America, South America, or "the Americas". It's fine, it works and isn't confusing.
Usually when you need to do it many times at scale, self managed rack can be cheaper than cloud. The downside is requiring expertise to manage and maintain it.
There should be extremely stiff penalties for price collusion and per-market limits on the portfolio size of both owners and property management companies.

I know in SF some of the bigger companies weren’t allowed to buy any more big buildings but they would facilitate sales for other building and perform property
management, which obviously means they control the price for a broader population of apartments than they own.
As I already mentioned, New York has had a right to shelter for something like 40 years and as far as I understand abolished slavery in 1827. Finland also has this in their constitution and does not have a slaves building homes for people. I think your model of reality is a bit off.
Expecting extensive duct tape use at this point.
I don't think that's quite the same, but in general I agree with that sentiment, even though you weren't serious about it.

Folks should know their basic C/C++ just like they should know enough x86 to make sense of what godbolt.org tells them. But oh, well, that's probably a lonely hill to die on. Having a rough idea of all these levels of abstraction work and interact is something I profit a lot in my line of work, but that's just a small niche and I get that (profiling and optimizing scientific, signal processing routines).
Dude has no shortage of confidence
You're probably a better programmer than the ones who find ways to stuff algorithms and data structures where they're not needed, and reinvent things that common trusted libraries already do.

Programming isn't a sport or a game of chess.

Unless you're working in a cutting edge field, people shouldn't see your code and think "Wow, what a genius", they should think "Yep, that is definitely code, I know what it does and it has unit tests".

Any other random programmer should be able to pick up where you left off.

Unfortunately, that is highly unsatisfying to many programmers, and there's the looming threat of being replaced by robots, and I don't have answers to either of those.... If I did, I would probably know what to do about my own job search issues.
Banning variable residential zoning via separate but equal unconstitutionally and all this goes away?

Not sure why some neighborhoods get different restrictive zoning than others…
On the flipside, there's Oracle HCM which doesn't let you create an account and makes you verify your email address with each subsequent job app. They rely on cookies for all of this.

No thanks. I'll take workday over that. I like using passwords and don't like tracking cookies, so I guess I'm weird.
I saw another comment on this topic how before the software existed, these companies would call up their competitor's offices to get their pricing. My understanding is this software does the same thing (via scraping their websites?).

I'm not sure I fully understand the issue? like should competitors not be allow to price themselves based on their competitors? collecting competitor pricing data shouldn't be real-time and automatic? Corporate landlords shouldn't/can't hire consulting firms to assist with pricing based on their competitor's data?
There is no arguing here against eating stuff that has meat-like properties (nutritional content and perhaps even taste). The issue is whether we have to torture billions of mammals and birds for that. I don't think it matters for your instinct if the stuff you eat comes from a killed animal or not, as long as it tastes and supplies the same.
To add to "capital-intensive": the regulatory framework right now (in the US) for drone delivery is uncertain at best. While most of the rules & regs to enable drone delivery is already finalized & published, a few very important ones (such as BVLOS - beyond visual line-of-sight) have yet been finalized, and thus need one-off waivers from the FAA to allow. And getting those one-off waivers is what eats a lot of time & money.
Although I find firing you for that silly and not a smart move from your boss the policy seems necessary after a few years in IT.

We don't even have a minimum amount of virus, if we or the client suspect there is, no matter what an anti virus program says, we format the computer. It's easier, faster and infallible, not like antivirus that take more time than a fresh install to run and can miss viruses.
The standard rhetorical sleight of hand that is standard any time "the people" are cited. To be fair unions are slightly better than most users in that department as they have actual votes.
Fabricated clickbait article.

You should read articles yourself before you submit them.

The entire article is pure speculation.
That's true. Ideas comes from total idleness or come from being under total pression. Maybe ideas just... comes.
Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats
What would make this really interesting is if you can give it a generator for input data yourself. Very often you don't have random binary data but structured in some way. The structure might imply you can get a very nice hash function for it.
Other than portability and privacy, are there any benefits to running a local model with a 4090, versus running the same model on-demand on a cloud service with the same or more powerful card?
I agree with you somewhat. You are correct unless they have a much better GPT model that have not released for whatever reason. They are a year ahead than competitors and GPT4 is pretty old now. I find it hard to believe they don’t have much more capable models now. We Will see though
>rolfing, alexander technique, or feldonkrais

Wikipedia says these are considered alternative medicine and there is no proof they affect health (and probably no proof they don't either). Trying more dynamic types of motion seems like good advice as it would affect a wider range of muscles. Perhaps isotonic exercises that pit muscles against each other to get muscle tensions/development in balance.

This recent NY Times article on the idea of "good posture" affecting back pain and health suggests there is no scientific basis for that, another great example of people in the past just making stuff up and it has become fake "knowledge":

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/science/linker-posture-sc...

Possibly forcing your body into an unnatural posture could cause back pain.

Take a look at your posture when working (record yourself with a video camera). It is very common for people working with computers to hunch forward for hours, peering at the screen. You can counter this with a timer to remind you to stretch or by enlarging fonts on the screen so you can more easily read the screen from a distance. Hand pain can be caused by computer mice/trackpads/keyboards.

Muscle tension seems like a cause worth exploring from your description. This can be related to anxiety or stress, so working on the sources of those could help in relaxing and reducing that muscle tension and any side effects from it. If your work keeps you in one posture for long periods of time possibly that could result in one set of muscles becoming larger than the muscles that counterbalance them, which makes it easier to damage the smaller muscles (you think you are strong, but you are only strong in one direction). The most basic thing to do is pay attention to what your muscles are telling you, when do they start to hurt and what were you doing prior to that? Can you feel the pain increasing and are you doing anything that might be causing that? Which specific muscles are hurting, and what motions cause those muscles to be used?
Vibrators can help relax muscle tension. So can sex.

Expert advice can be valuable, some causes of pain have physiological sources; comments from people on the internet may represent valid experience, but may not necessarily apply to you.
I got the picture.
I bothers me on two levels:

(1) it’s a cooler scene when he shoots first. It’s raw and uncompromising and represents what the first two films were before the later films went in a different direction.

(2) The idea that the bounty hunter could miss by that much at that distance is just ridiculous. It’s immersion breaking.

It’s just one scene but it stands out. If it were food, you could say “it’s just one hair in your yogurt.” It still kinda impacts the rest of it.
What will you do if your company becomes “successful”: is either acquired by a “big company” or becomes a “big company”? Particularly if you play a significant role in your company’s success? Maybe get a head start and learn about wood.
How to make the most of Apple Notes
There’s a Pareto frontier where Meta is pushing out the boundaries along the “private” and “cheap” axes.

Open AI can release GPT 4.5 or 5 and push out the boundary in the direction of “correctness” and “multimodality”.

Either way, we win as customers while the the level of competition remains this hot.

I personally want a smart AI much more than a cheap or fast one. Your mileage may vary.
Thank you kindly :)

The irony is I had never seen the entire scene, and Jefferson is called out hard!
barring rational regulation, we are likely to observe irrational actions in the future. Cost Disease is progressing to the point where prices are non-sensical. How does the median house appreciate more than the median income every year? Carry forward college prices 15 years and a 4 year degree will cost 800k. These are not sustainable numbers. Gen Alpha would be facing a 1.6 MM starting home cost and be saddled with hundreds of thousands in student loan debt.
That will be the shires then!

I have never heard the phrase 'sticks n bricks'. That is technical parlance. Nobody in the history of Eastenders has used that phrase.

It is true that there are wattle and daub houses but it is the one thatched roof cottage that you notice next to the busy A road, not the thousands of semis in the neighbouring estates.

In Glasgow there are large parts of the city where only some doors are made of wood. Everything else is concrete, steel, plastic and glass. These are 'closes' (apartments) which is different to the English 'close' (street). I am not sure wood would work for 'closes'.

London has a lot of wood, but so much of London might as well be from Orwell's 'Down and Out in Paris and London'. Landlords do not spend money so those sash windows and wooden floors are there for an eternity. West Germany has far better housing stock with details such as windows that close.
Using Tinder as analogy for bandmate-finding works quite well, as the end goal can be abstracted away as some "intimate relationship".

Whether the mechanics of Tinder are worth parodying is another question, I need to try the app first.
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Ask HN: Affordable hardware for running local large language models?
A while back there was a post about running stable diffusion on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 [1] which was slow but incredibly impressive! And that sparked my curiosity with this question, what is considered affordable hardware for running large language models locally today? I'm aware that there's a lot of work underway to make inference cheap to run at the edge but I'm curious to understand the landscape at present that anyone could purchase. I seen people running models on flagship smartphones but those are more expensive then a mac mini with worse performance.

By affordable I mean no greater then the cost of a current gen base model mac mini ($599) but ideally around the price of a raspberry pi 5 ($79) which when searching for budget PC gets mentioned[2]. Both devices have the same amount of ram in my case (8gb) but different performance observed given the importance of memory bandwidth. I mention these two because I've had experience running llama 3 via ollama on both with success although of slower speeds compared to a full workstation with a commodity GPU i.e. RTX 4090 which starts at ($1599). I'm interested in learning about what other devices are out there that people consider cheap and use for LLMs locally.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38646969

[2]: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-budget-desktop-computers
librewolf isn't a general purpose browser, some things are supposed to be broken.
Since when do publically traded corporations care about sustainability of business models? They'll cheerfully destroy a business for short term gain and then leverage the funding elsewhere.
our robot overlords have solved that problem too: https://github.com/JoonasVali/NaturalMouseMotion

For text input you can measure the time between key down and key up events when typing a long sentence and then generate delays randomly between key presses to simulate a human typing.
One option is to be a project manger.

However, I make between 15k to 20k a month doing my own scripting, using Asp Classic. Largely because I have difficulty learning new things and after 20+ years I am now good at this one thing. All I do is put data into a database, display it, update and delete it. The result is the same across all languages. You have to run your own business doing so. It took me a long time to figure out getting into business on my own successfully. I have tried multiple times without success but I am good now.
There's wide speculation that what will be branded as either GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 has finished pretraining now and is undergoing internal testing for a fairly near-term release.
> Fascinating to think that only hundreds of years ago there was an entirely uninhabited country.

There wasn't; there's no such thing as an uninhabited "country", since countries are political entities.

There's lots of uninhabited land; the amount of uninhabited land in the United States alone will be many times the size of all of New Zealand.
Most of the big "investments" in OpenAI are in the form of compute credits. I fail to see the downside of that.
If most/all of the major players used the same consulting firm, wouldn’t that be a conflict of interest that borders on - perhaps even is outright - breaking the law?
> Incredibly impressive that people were able to find NZ on boats. I can hardly navigate a few streets without GPS.

Odds are you're terrible at speaking Lao, but do you find it impressive that other people can?
Integrating things is 100% of a maintainer's job. As someone who wrote one topic, you don't have any insight into the arbitrarily many other topics that coincidentally were written at a similar time to yours; as the maintainer who integrates all submitted topics, you have read and are familiar with all of them.

As a topic author, you have no such responsibility to deal with arbitrary other topics you had nothing to do with; this holds in an opportunistic open source contribution, in a workplace, anywhere. There's someone who reads all the patches and has a working knowledge of them: the maintainer. And if they ask you to do their job for them (which you will likely do poorly, not being the maintainer), they are a _bad_ maintainer. (And if software encourages this it's bad software; I'm not attributing this to maintainer malice or something, most people are just taking their cues from common bad software like Github's website.)

> why should i merge a tag and not the branch head?

Because a branch head is an arbitrary collection of things and a version is a specific supported collection of things.
I'm not one to make perfect the enemy of good. If it's the best we have, it's what I will cite until better is provided.
I think that's what became the Apple IIe. From this plan, the VLC seems very associated with the Apple II, and Wikipedia has a compatible timeline in the History section of the Apple IIe page[1]:

> In September 1981 InfoWorld reported—below the PC's announcement—that Apple was secretly developing three new computers "to be ready for release within a year": Lisa, Macintosh, and "Diana". Describing the last as a software-compatible Apple II replacement

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe
The new fintech stack is open source?
I'm not seeing anything like what you describe... can you tell me exactly where that feature is located?
You can also just pay more for their HIPAA compliant offerings, which stand a very good chance of having decent security?
Captcha solving services are pretty cheap and reliable. The main draw for captchas is to keep out the low effort bots that will ddos your site. Determined bot authors that can solve a captcha usually respect rate limits.
Ok but those tabs would have to be suspended for them to not use "any" memory.
Megaconstellations like SpaceX's could weaken Earth's magnetic field, atmosphere
to monitor the health of workers on affected farms

Are they really? There's economic incentives against it - the farm owners won't want to know that their herd has bird flu, and the farmworkers, a good chunk of whom are illegal, don't want to know either. And now suddenly, the same government that studiously looked aside wants to count what doesn't want to be counted?
An occasional pop, sugar or no, isn't going to cause diabetes.
There’s a difference between researching your competitors prices (to set your prices accordingly) and coming to an agreement with your competitors to set a particular price. The former is market research (to which your competitor is free to respond) but the latter is price fixing. Price fixing is illegal because it’s anticompetitive: it reduces competition in the market directly by forming a conspiracy or cartel against the public.
Go read the story… the east german manufacturer tried exporting it, but resellers thought selling virtually unbreakable glassware was a bad business. Same thing happened with the GE/Osram cartel for pushing shorter lived incandescent lamps to the market.

It’s naive to believe only buyer behavior drives what products are available, when the market is fixed to limit offer. You’re probably confused between the meaning of capitalism and free market.
If a building's rent is higher than its surrounding ones, renters are less likely to live there. The same applies to cities, if, after adjusting for job/lifestyle/etc, people feel it's too expensive to live in a city, they move away, eventually reducing demand.
Is the association correlation or causation? Because that is very important. People with higher BMI (thus higher risk of diabetes) tend to be self conscious about their diet, they might consume more artificial sweeteners than healthy individuals. They can be already diabetic to begin with before artificial sweetener was consumed frequently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager#Bibliography lists several resources which might provide the answers, like "Voyager" at https://archive.org/details/voyager00yeag/mode/2up (co-authored by the two pilots) or "Voyager The World Flight; The Official Log, Flight Analysis and Narrative Explanation" at https://archive.org/details/voyagerworldflig0000norr by the mission controller.
Awesome work! Would love to see a video demo, mainly to see how the speech sounds, delays, and general answers.

This is the perfect project for HN - great readme/setup tutorial too.
Agree on everything, it's such an amazing tool it's almost unreal.
Time-Based CSS Animations
They made good gear that worked well .... for a while. But when the machine broke down for any reason, there was no way of fixing it.

https://www.mussiclovers.com/product/akai-x-v-1960s-portable...

I had a very upmarket portable tape recorder in the mid 1960s. The brushes on the motor wore out. But newer models had a brushless motor which was a drop-in replacement. When I wrote to them asking if there was a way of replacing my old-style motor with the new one, I received a letter saying. "No, we're not fixing it. Please to buy other Akai product."

Needless to say I bought "other brand", not Akai.
Buying this supercomputer for 480k and parting it out for 700k doesn't sound profitable. The amount of labor involved in that sort of business is substantial, you have to store the whole thing while you do it, and you're going to crash the ebay market for those parts to boot.
Unless the buyer already has buyers lined up for bulk purchases, I don't think parting it out would make any sense.
My speculation is that internally they have much stronger models like Q* but they won’t be able to release them to public even if they want to for lack of compute and safety and other reasons they see probably…
That's one of the problems with a 100% free market. There's an implicit assumption that everyone is a perfectly rational economic actor that understands what goes into lightbulb durability. But does the average person really have the scientific knowledge to determine the mean-time-to-failure of different lightbulbs and the math skills necessary to know whether it's more cost effective to buy several cheap bulbs or 1 durable one?

When you have that level of information asymmetry, people might value qualities like durability but can't guide their purchasing decisions with it because they don't know what ion exchanged glass is and why they should be looking for it. Not everyone is an engineer/scientist.
> Of course, now I wonder how to quickly express "change within 2nd text delimited by ..."

c2i"
Paying other companies to achieve a monopoly is no less unlawful or anticompetitive than any other form of achieving a monopoly. Even monopolies achieved primarily on merit can, and have been, broken up. AT&T being the typical example there. There's a really great article on their rise and fall. [1] Ask basically anybody who was around during their heyday and most were quite happy with AT&T, but nonetheless their monopolistic level of control of telephony created poor market conditions, and so they were broken up.

[1] - https://www.wired.com/2011/09/att-conquered-20th-century/
The reaction will be interesting.
Why not broadcast it as FM? Much better signal, much less chance that somebody misses a word because AM quality is shit.
How do you provide relief to all those renters?

The article spells it out pretty clearly.

> Prices are coming down in markets such as Atlanta and Austin, Texas, where home construction is high. But analysts believe low rates of homebuilding on the U.S. East Coast could give well-located landlords more pricing power.
Don’t think it is dumb at all. If these flying cars can get rid of roads it would be a win for humans and animals. I hate roads. Imagine a world without roads and everyone transports by air. The space it could freed could be used for bigger housing and more land for nature. There would be no need for waiting for semaphores as well.